Adobe Students ‘Office Hours’ presents a LIVE collaboration with Michael Canty and his mentor, Antonio Borja (Creative Director at General Motors). 'Office Hours' connects students who are making it with Creative Cloud to industry leaders that have made it for real-time advice, inspiration and creative collaborations.
In this video, we're hosting the first 'Office Hours' of 2014 with a collaborative twist. Michael Canty is a car designer that dreams of making cars for future-forward people using cutting-edge technology and innovative designs. Through the power of collaboration, Michael & Antonio will take us through the creative process of bringing the car-of-tomorrow to life. Check out Michael’s futuristic designs here: https://www.behance.net/michaelcantydesign

A common technique is to design for the mobile platform first, followed by the tablet or desktop versions. Doing so, allows you to focus on the most important aspects of the content and design, which can then be expanded to fit the tablet and desktop web layouts. Taken from Train Simple's Adobe Muse CC course.

Learn the basics of creating and styling elements in Reflow. Adobe Evangelist Paul Trani will show you how to Create boxes (DIVs), buttons, add graphics, and style your elements to create the design you want.

MD Mike Cryer of emc design Mike Cryer joins Business Development Manager Sophie O'Rourke and Designer Adam Brightman to discuss how moving to Creative Cloud has changed the way they work. As a design agency working exclusively for publishers, emc design has found working with CC a great way to help ease the transition from designing for print to designing for digital publications.

This video offers a high-level look at the differences between print and web design. Topics discussed include navigation considerations, document construction, and accessibility options. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Adobe Certified Expert and Trainer Barb Binder gives a solid 8 minute overview on how catalogs and designer menus are used in FrameMaker 11. Unlike Word, FrameMaker supports separate catalogs for paragraphs, character styles, table styles as well as graphic object styles. In this simple step-by-step session, Barb Binder covers the essentials on these powerful tools.

Michael Stoddart and Paul Burnett unpack new tools in Creative Cloud, including the new Kuler tool, Illustrator® CC, InDesign® CC, Muse, and more. We also chat to Derek Samuel, Creative Director at Design Works about creativity and finding the best execution.

Terry White, Adobe worldwide evangelist, shows off the newest Creative Cloud features for designers. See what's new in the tools you love — Adobe Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, and InDesign CC — and discover new ways to work like creating websites or iPad apps without writing code. Learn about new services that help keep your ideas, files, fonts, settings, and team members in sync. All in one place, only in Creative Cloud.

Get an in-depth look at the powerful new CSS Designer tools in Dreamweaver CC. Intuitive visual editing tools help you generate clean, web-standard code and quickly apply CSS properties like gradients and box shadows. You can see the effects on your designs immediately, eliminating tedious tweaking and the need to go back and forth to Code view.

Featurette: Intuitive visual editing tools help you generate clean, web-standard code and quickly apply CSS properties like gradients and box shadows. See the effect in your design immediately. No more tedious tweaking. No more switching back to the code. What you see is what you get.

We’ll meet the iconic designer and champion of British creativity whose ethos of design without barriers allows him to work across industries, on projects from G Plan and McDonalds to Nissan and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee project.

Did you know that you can export your FormsCentral designs to save on your computer, reuse as templates, and even share with other FormsCentral users? This short video shows you how easy it is to create your own FormsCentral template files.

Adobe updated the components of the Digital Publishing Suite in May 2012. This video provides an overview of new design features including iPhone authoring, renditions for multiple devices, and new workflows for InDesign to generate alternate layouts for these devices.

Web fonts have become an important part of many web designers' workflows. Dreamweaver CS6 adds support for web fonts through the new Web Fonts Manager. See how to use the Web Fonts Manager to add, manage, and apply web fonts throughout your sites.

CS6 Design & Web Premium offers you the ability to create new types of content without needing to learn new software. See how you can edit video or 3D objects with Adobe Photoshop CS6 Extended, or design iPad publications with Adobe InDesign CS6.

Award-winning Chen Design Associates is known for their ability to bring their client’s stories to life in any medium. See why their early adoption of Muse (code name) is helping them to achieve new heights in the websites they create.

One stage, four computers, and four big screens—that’s the setup for the Cut & Paste Digital Design Tournament, which takes the design process out of the studios and brings it in front of a live audience. Watch some of the best designers from around the world as they compete to serve creativity alongside drinks and DJ music to an excited crowd.

The Adobe Design Achievement Awards recently announced a call for entries for 2012. In this video, Julie Campagna chats with several people who are involved with this competition that recognizes the incredible work of students and faculty from around the globe.

Go Behind the Design with the founders of NYC design studio Dress Code. See what drives their approach to design and how they’re adapting to the expanding role of graphic designers. See what motivates them and where they look for inspiration.

Find out how to use Adobe Fireworks to create mobile designs that can be easily turned into CSS code (pasted into Adobe Dreamweaver) and export bitmap images optimized for mobile devices. This session will also reveal how to slice designs and export foreground and background images from Fireworks, use the Fireworks slice-naming feature to create assets with filenames that match your mobile framework, and create PNG-8 images with alpha transparency for reduced mobile bandwidth.

Discover the principles of design that can lead to the creation of visually compelling cross-platform applications. ThRead is a collaborative project between Adobe and renowned design company Method. It is a unique reader application that allows the simultaneous consumption and organization of information, created using the newest mobile development features in the Adobe Flex SDK. We'll take you through some collaborative processes that worked for us throughout design and development.

Explore new techniques in Adobe Creative Suite that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Work more efficiently with shared content by mastering Smart Objects; benefit from tips and tricks for placing native content in Adobe InDesign and other components; and learn how to reuse print content for your web designs, share swatches and other content, and much more.

Join this session to learn how to use analytics and testing data from the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to make better decisions about creative design. You'll hear from Adobe's marketing experts, who will share industry insights on what works and what doesn't when it comes to creative campaigns for digital content. This session will highlight use cases from the Online Marketing Suite, including Adobe SiteCatalyst and Adobe Test&Target.

Discover how Hallmark is developing a motion design workflow for content that has multiple uses (print, interactive, web, broadcast, mobile, and so on). We’ll show how to take files that originated for print and then convert them for distribution to the web, mobile applications, Google TV, and broadcast. See how to start with HD source files and follow an "author once, distribute everywhere" model. While focusing on a single file, the session will cover a range of topics from naming conventions to output modules and file creation.

Find out how to turn merely adequate experiences on the web into more meaningful ones with an intelligent interface designed using Adobe Fireworks. People often complete tasks despite the fact that many interfaces seem intent on thwarting us; understanding how people perceive, think, learn, and remember can help us make better design decisions. In this session we will identify common UX problems, discuss how people actually think, and show how to modify the design with Fireworks to craft a better user experience.

In this session you'll learn about the new features and functionality of Designer that will breath new life into your interactive PDF documents, and PDF portfolios. You'll also learn how to add Flash to your PDF documents and customize Interactive Statements.

See Adobe Flash Professional developers and designers demonstrate how code and visual assets can be shared and updated across documents to target multiple screens, with ActionScript set up so that the right code is compiled for specific devices. Developers and designers working together in harmony? Yes, it's possible.

Join Adobe’s Director of Experience Design, Ty Lettau, as he walks you through key user experience considerations and discusses the real challenges behind cloud computing for consumers and creators alike. While the promise of cloud computing offers a new world of universal access and convenience, enabling users to move fluidly from the desktop to the web to any number of mobile devices requires a complex choreography of information, application, and social design patterns. We'll explore solutions to this new problem.

Flash Professional has long been a friend to designers, but it can be hard to figure out where to begin. In this tutorial, Paul Trani shows you how you can use Photoshop in conjunction with Flash Pro to create a design, add animation to it, and even publish a Flash project complete with interactivity, all in less than 10 minutes.

Discover how to specify design elements for your PDF Portfolio, such as layouts, visual themes, color and more in Acrobat X Pro. You can use the pre-installed design tools and options, or customize your PDF Portfolio to include other features or to maintain a specific brand identity for your document collections.

Understand what interaction design is and how the five essential principals of interaction design could help you make better interaction design decisions. This quick introduction will help you get started thinking about how to design your interfaces in the most effective way with the behavior of the user in mind.

Now that you understand the five principals of Interaction Design, it’s time to learn how to apply those concepts to craft effective navigational systems for digital interfaces. At the end, follow along a quick tutorial in Adobe Flash Catalyst to see some ways dropdown navigation bar elements can be presented.

See how the five essential principals of interaction design apply to the presentation and the delivery of text, and understand how people tend to view and consume text on a digital device. Then follow a quick exercise in Adobe Flash Catalyst to take a look at an example of creating a liquid layout.

In this episode, David explores how interaction design is applied to the delivery of images and media through the use of patterns, timing, size and more. Then he switches over to Adobe Flash Catalyst to show an example where some of this is applied to a light box project.

In this final lesson, David wraps things up by teaching you how to effectively design interactions for forms and dialogs including ways to smoothly guide users through a good user experience using the same essential principals discussed in this series.

Showcasing new features of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium to prepare students for future success in graphic and print design. CS5 is industry-standard software that teaches design, communications, and project management.

With Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium software, designers will be able to express ideas faster and more naturally, and will discover new possibilities to deliver ideas in digital media without writing code. Work faster and more efficiently using more precise image-selection tools in Photoshop CS5 Extended, variable-width strokes in Illustrator CS5 and intuitive object object-selection features in Adobe InDesign CS5.
Turn Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5.

Jump-start your standards-based website design with updated and simplified CSS starter layouts in Dreamweaver CS5. Regardless of your experience, CSS starter layouts speed your development time by providing a variety of solid structures upon which to build your designs. For print designers and others just making the move to web design, CSS starter layouts can dramatically speed up the learning process.

Make fast work of common design and production tasks like image re-touching with magical content aware fill in Photoshop Extended, creating complex shapes with Shape Builder tool in Illustrator, and intuitive object-selection features in InDesign and more.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium will let you streamline common design and production tasks with feature-packed releases of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash Professional. And extend the reach of your work by creating interactive content with new Flash Catalyst - without writing code.

Terry White shares a few of his favorite new features in CS5 Design Premium including making precision selections, quickly with Photoshop, create expressive graphics easily with variable-width strokes in Illustrator and delivering visually engaging interactive documents that include video, audio and animation with InDesign.

As eBook technology continues to evolve, designers are looking for ways to deliver high-quality content in the latest formats for the latest devices. Create compelling eBooks with enhanced support for the EPUB file format with CS5 Design Premium and Digital Editions.

Deliver engaging work onscreen to connect with more people in more ways. See how you can use new Flash Catalyst to transform Photoshop or Illustrator artwork into functional designs for user interfaces, info-graphics and rich internet applications.

Learn how you can design beautiful, standards compliant websites using Business Catalyst, and see how BC provides you with full creative freedom over your web design. We'll also demonstrate the Adobe Dreamweaver Extension for BC.

Emily Pilloton is the founder and executive director of Project H Design. She was recently awarded a $15,000 Adobe Foundation grant to support work on her new book Design Revolution: 100 Projects That Empower People.